Recently I’ve been trying to switch my work environment theme to something with lower contrast (namely the excellent Zenburn theme). Swing applications, however, have difficulties with GTK themes w...

If you have access to the source, you can do this in the main method: // enable anti-aliasing System.setProperty("awt.useSystemAAFontSettings","on"); System.setProperty("swing.aatext", "true"); ...

I always thought that the fact that JDialogs accepted a parent frame as a constructor argument was the thing, that would make the dialog’s position relative to that of the frame: public JDialog(fi...

Have you ever been wondering how to access the Emacs menu bar, when using Emacs in console mode? The answer is easy - press F10 or type M-x menu-bar-open(both methods work in X as well, of course)....

Sometimes you may want to start a couple of programs just after an interactive login to your favourite shell, which in my case would be zsh. For example - I use Emacs as daemon process (emacs --da...

The driver selected by default by Fedora 11 is not appropriate for Xerox Phaser 3117 - it will not print with it. However there is a very easy solution to the problem. Go to System -> Administr...

Most people have been in a situation requiring them to change one or more of the parameters passed to the JVM on top of which JBoss AS is running. For instance - you may need a bigger heap, bigger ...

When you have applications, whose configuration is as complex as that of Emacs it’s always a good idea to store that configuration under version control so you can easily share it between multiple ...

One of the most dreaded things that you can see while trying to run some application or trying to install an rpm package is a message saying that some required library is missing. Generally this i...

One of the things that I don’t like about the default Eclipse settings for Java development is that in the package explorer all Java files appear in the same manner(with the same icon). There is no...